On July 29 1986, a beloved family member was taken from us by a pre-meditated brutal murder. Our family member, Lewis Jennings was a father, grandfather, brother, uncle, a friend to all. He was an honorable human being who didn't deserve this to happen to him. This horrific pre-meditated act of violence has affected each and every one of my family members. Most of us live with a certain fear that will haunt us and is with us the rest of our lives. We never forget. Because of this new ruling by the SJC and Governor Deval Patrick, one of the murderers, Jeffrey Roberio is now eligible for parole because he was 17 at the time of the murder. This new ruling isn't just appalling; it's an injustice to my family. This ridiculous ruling adds salt to wounds that have never healed and never will. The murderer will be let free while my family serves a life sentence forever. Our family member can't be given a second chance at life. It’s unfair to my family that Jeff Roberio be given that right. He's a person who showed no respect for human life. At 17 years old, you are old enough to know right from wrong. My family will never have closure. But at least let us have the justice. We are asking to keep this man behind bars where he belongs.

COMMONWEALTH vs. JEFFREY S. ROBERIO. COMMONWEALTH vs. JEFFREY S. ROBERIO. 428 Mass. 278 September 9, 1998 - October 26, 1998 Plymouth County Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ. In the circumstances of a murder case, defense counsel's failure to investigate an insanity defense constituted ineffective assistance of counsel [279-280], and the judge incorrectly denied the defendant's motion for a new trial on that ground, based on his own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's qualified expert psychologist who testified at a hearing on the motion [280-281]. At a criminal trial in which the defendant was convicted of armed robbery and murder in the first degree on the basis of premeditation, extreme atrocity and cruelty, and felony-murder, the robbery assault and the numerous other assaults on the victim were sufficiently independent to permit convictions of both murder and robbery. [281-282] INDICTMENTS found and returned in the…Read More

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Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up BOSTON (AP) — Sentencing juveniles convicted of murder to life in prison without a chance for parole is unconstitutional, the state’s highest court ruled Tuesday, falling in line with the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled in…Read More

A lifer’s retelling of how, at 17, he beat a Middleboro grandfather bloody and strangled him because he wouldn’t give him money to buy booze further inflamed those determined to keep Jeffrey Roberio behind bars. “I was screaming at him, ‘Where’s the money?’ I started punching him, hitting him, kicking him, breaking his ribs, his spine, his arm,…Read More